Should I give a traditional wooden comb (Eollebit) to my beloved?

[우리문화신문=김영조 푸른솔겨레문화연구소장] Ode to the Half Moon Who cut the jade of Mount Kunlun To fashion this comb for the Weaver Girl? After the Cowherd departed and went away In her sorrow, she cast it into the blue void of heaven In her poem “Ode to the Half Moon [詠半月],” the poet Hwang Jini described the half moon as "the comb thrown into the sky by the Weaver Girl (Jingnyeo) after her parting with the Cowherd (Gyeon-u)." Having parted from her lover after the Chilseok festival, she cast it away into the heavens because there was no one left to admire her beauty, no matter how elegantly she combed her hai

• 김영조 푸른솔겨레문화연구소장
• 2026-05-09 20:58